How can I make JetBrains Intellij IDEA 13 recognize a Git imported project as a Maven project?

Question

I have been having trouble with IDEA ( JetBrains Intellij IDEA 13 ) not reading the pom.xml file after the project has been imported using the VCS . How can I make IDEA recognize this as a Maven project so it gets all the dependencies from the pom.xml ?

This is what the pom.xml currently looks like in Project View :

Answer 1

To test it try this our:

1. Go to VCS->Chech out from Version Control->Git
2. Enter this spring project: https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-mvc-showcase
3. Select the desired clone path and press "Clone"

If everything is working correctly it will ask you to create an Intellij project

Answer 2

How can I fix this?

1. Right click the pom.xml file.
2. In the menu select " Add as Maven project ", the project will now turn into a Maven project and the pom.xml file icon should turn into an m , the Maven logo.

How did it occur?

This occurs when you don't include the " .idea " folder in the Git repository.